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...bist du schön-Please let me explain...
...bist du schön means that you're grand...
Drouin's destination is Mariakerke, a large, gloomy insane asylum where his old friend Du Roy is an intern. Both men are plagued by the European past, the American present and the possibly harrowing future. Drouin, his right hand maimed by battle wounds, has "got war" the way other people have smallpox. Du Roy, who plunged from the idealism of the resistance to light-fingered wealth in the black market, has turned to medicine out of guilt. The two men circle like scavengers over the asylum, searching for glints of God or reason in the chatter of psychotics...
Treasure Chest. The necklace contained 647 diamonds weighing some 2,800 carats in all, and to duplicate it today would cost $3,855,500-including, Historian Mossiker notes helpfully, the 10% federal excise tax. This grotesque ornament was invented by the crown jewelers to tempt Madame du Barry, who would probably have bought it if her protector, the goatish Louis XV, had not died of smallpox before the diamonds could be assembled. Antoinette, the new Queen, then seemed the ideal purchaser: her husband had the money, and she, possessing a 43½-inch bust, could set off 647 diamonds properly...
...Du Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.). An adaptation of The Prisoner of Zenda, in which Christopher Plummer doubles as King of Ruritania and Cousin Rudolph. With Farley Granger, Inger Stevens and Nancy Wickwire...